How many baby Cape serotines are in a litter?
A Cape serotine (Eptesicus capensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Eptesicus). An adult Cape serotine grows up to a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Cape serotine (Neoromicia capensis) is a species of vesper bat occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa. ‘Serotine’ is from Latin ‘serotinus’ meaning ‘of the evening’.It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Djibouti.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Cape serotine is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Painted bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s big-eared bat becoming 3.17 years old
- Grey long-eared bat becoming 15 years old
- Hoary bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Little bent-wing bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rendall’s serotine weighting only 6 grams
- Little yellow bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Asian particolored bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Banana pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cape serotine
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sitatunga
- Hoffmann’s rat
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Proboscis monkey
- Killer whale
- Arabian tahr
- Jamaican fruit bat
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Fire-footed rope squirrel
- Angolan free-tailed bat
Animals with the same weight as a Cape serotine
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew weighting 6 grams
- Bobrinski’s serotine weighting 7 grams
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat weighting 5 grams
- Malayan horseshoe bat weighting 6 grams
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew weighting 6 grams
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat weighting 6 grams
- Dormer’s bat weighting 6 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse weighting 6 grams
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat weighting 7 grams
- Pilbara ningaui weighting 6 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cape serotine
Also reaching around 8.2 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Sandy inland mouse gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Alpine shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common shrew gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- African pygmy squirrel gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-eared flying mouse gets as big as 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Julia Creek dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater forest shrew gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- San Diego pocket mouse gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Père David’s vole gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)